sympathist means someone who sympathizes; a sympathizer. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From sympathy + -ist.
noun
- Someone who sympathizes; a sympathizer.“c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Some Other Plays of Shakespeare
the sensation , -of human auditors , —of flesh and blood sympathists - acts as a support and a stimulation a tergo”
- One who is susceptible to hypnotic suggestion.